Happy belated news! Google has announced that they will stop censoring their search results in China. Apparently they discovered that G-Mail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists were being hacked into to access information about them. No surprise there.
The real surprise is that Google placed human rights and freedom of expression over business and has refused to comply with China's iron-fisted censorship laws. They have threatened to cut off Google.cn entirely if the government doesn't supply uncensored search results to the people.
I realize that the battle for human rights in China has hardly been won, but Google's actions have been a major step in that direction. If other companies can be encouraged to follow in their direction, America can stop shamelessly advocating China's blatant violations of the most basic civil liberties.
I also realize that most of you have probably heard about this already. I simply want to inform all the people I can, and express my pride that an American company has finally decided to stop being a pack of idiotic bureaucrats and stand up for what they believe in. Also, you can access more information and a petition to sign here.
This is just the beginning, and victory is sweet so far.
(Very) Sincerely,
Charlotte.
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